[gothic-l] Question about Catualda

[Frank Kermes]

Hi Steve,

>This root is as widespread in Celtic (OIrish marc, MWelsh  march, and
>Gaulish
>marco) which, from a cultural-(pre)historical perspective, makes a loan
>from
>Germanic seem awkward.

That would depend on how early it was borrowed, and how early the Celtic
languages moved to the British Isles, which are both subjects I know very
little about . . .

>Also, the Germanic forms show a terminal -h, not -k.

Well, the _German_ forms do= Old High German, Old Saxon.  The same shift
from /k/ to /h/ occurs elsewhere in the some of the Continental West
Germanic Languages; i.e. OE <seax>, ON <saxr>, OS <sahs>.

>Of the IE sister languages, only Celtic and Germanic seem to retain it.
>Buck
>(A dictionary of selected synonyms in the principal indo-european languages
>1949) mentions that the Germanic reflex stems from feminine derivation
>(*markiha) connoting a wild rather than domestic animal.

Though this is straying from Catualda.  I had just read that bit in Green,
so I though I'd volunteer it.  Your points are well taken, Steve.

Cheers,
Frank
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